The emotional struggles of men passed down from generation to generation are here observed through the queer and feminist lenses of three films, spanning from the 90s through today. The internal battles of the characters reveal discrepancies, conflicting masculinities and a distressing solitude. Without absolving them of their resulting actions, these three filmmakers place their varying needs for intimacy, expressed through a wide array of cultural markers and practices such as medieval literature, rap music, violence or the use of drugs and alcohol, within a framework of an increasingly disconnected society.

Pierre Voland, Signal GPS perdu (2022)
BE, 2022, 43 min
(old) French, with French and English subtitles

A character embarks on a quest for love and finds guidance in 12th century courtly literature and a gay dating app.

in the presence of the artist

Alison Murray, Wank Stallions (1993)
UK, 33 min
English spoken, English subtitles

Wank Stallions follows two young men as they move through the English club scene of the 1990s on the coast of Brighton. They bump into various archetypes of masculinity, abandoning themselves to a transformational choreography fueled by drugs and alcohol.

Murray’s early films (Wank Stallions, Kissy Suzuki Suck and Pantyhead a.o.) were radical in their dissection of stereotypical representations and were extensively distributed by argos in the early nineties. Wank Stallions, which copiously quotes English poet A.A. Milne, American journalist Hunter S. Thompson and hip-hop band Urban Species, has been subtitled on the occasion of this screening.

Gala Hernández López, La Mécanique des fluides (2022)
FR, ES, 38 min
French spoken, English subtitles

In 2018, an incel (involuntary celibate) posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death". “The Mechanics of Fluids” is an attempt to find answers to his words, a virtual drift through the Internet in search of his digital traces that ends up being an inner journey between two connected solitudes.

La Mécanique des fluides was recently added to argos' distribution catalogue.